My wife had a colonoscopy last week. She was clean as a whistle in terms of polyps. The doctor, who has been in this line of work for over 30 years recommended two things: 1- eat plenty of “live food”, meaning fresh fruits, vegetables and salads, and (this surprised me) 2- avoid bread
I am a heart patient and, with respect to bread, I think I had read or heard before that the processed flour acted something like an abrasive in the blood vessel walls encouraging plaque build-up. If true, that might carry through to the colon.
I am not in the medical field, so I don’t really know. Just trying to navigate through my life trying to learn from what I read and hear.
My doc said the same. Bread, pasta, cakes, tortillas, sugars, HFCS, all contribute to cholesterol build-up, plaques and arteriosclerosis. ...............
Stop injecting flour into your veins!
Seriously, bread/flour is just sugar as fast as your body is concerned, and it does damage your circulatory system if high levels are maintained for too long.
And colon health largely comes down to feeding beneficial bacteria in your gut complex carbs — non-starchy vegetables.